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At this point, there's no way Dr. Dre's long-awaited "Detox" can live up to our expectations. It's been almost a decade that the famed L.A. producer has been talking about the album, the follow-up to his 1999 album "2001," and by now it's just better served to go down as a hip-hop myth.

Look, right now some Best Buy employees are playing laser tag amid forts built out of unsold "Chinese Democracy" albums -- or at least they should be. "Detox" needs to avoid this fate, and there's only one way that can happen: If it forever stays on Dre's custom-branded fancy laptops. Think, how awesome would the much-hyped Guns 'N Roses album had been if it had just lived in our dreams? Super awesome. The greatest album no one ever heard.

"It’s just my interpretation of what each planet sounds like. I’m gonna go off on that. Just all instrumental. I’ve been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet. I’ve been doing this for about two years now just in my spare time so to speak. I wanna do it in surround sound. It’ll have to be in surround sound for Saturn to work."

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